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Very insightful. You forgot to mention "and is solvable by a human". Otherwise the captcha would be just be proof of work of some kind.
by greesil 4y ago
Very insightful. You forgot to mention "and is solvable by a human". Otherwise the captcha would be just be proof of work of some kind.
- MontyCarloHall 4y agoProof-of-work is exactly what Cloudflare’s Turnstyle CAPTCHA alternative is: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-altern... The only reason we still solve those stupid image recognition puzzles is because Google/Waymo and other self-driving car companies have managed to trick us into helping them do their training work for them.
- toastal 4y agoI'm waiting for the check to arrive after all of these years of training—especially after moving to the East from the West and now I have 5× as many prompts.
- rkagerer 4y agoIs there a link beyond that blog post explaining how it's a proof-of-work and how you keep people with thick wallets willing to pay for compute from exploiting?